Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 25
“Is it a pain in your stomach, master?”
Who acts: Da’v · What happens: be · To what, where: pain, stomach
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Da’v), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pain | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pain | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pain | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pain | det |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 stomach | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pain | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pain | appos |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Da’v = da'v | a pain | your stomach | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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